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CAIRO, EGYPT - NOVEMBER 22: Protesters stand by on a side street near Tahrir Square during stand off and clashes with riot police on November 22, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's interim ruling Military council, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has reportedly agreed to transfer power to a civilian government by July 2012 and hold presidential elections before the end of June 2012, following days of deadly protests in Cairo's Tahir Square, ahead of next weeks parliamentary elections that are set to go ahead as scheduled. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

CAIRO, EGYPT - NOVEMBER 22: A wounded protester sits in Tahrir Square on November 22, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's interim ruling Military council, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has reportedly agreed to transfer power to a civilian government by July 2012 and hold presidential elections before the end of June 2012, following days of deadly protests in Cairo's Tahir Square, ahead of next weeks parliamentary elections that are set to go ahead as scheduled. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

CAIRO, EGYPT - MAY 27: T-shirts are displayed for sale as demonstrators gather in Tahrir Square on May 27, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said that there would be no use of violence against protests dubbed 'the Second Revolution of Anger' taking place in Cairo and other cities in Egypt today. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Supreme Council of the Armed Forces opposing right to vote for Egyptian living abroad under, claiming that Egyptian abroad are not patriotic and have secret agenda (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

CAIRO, EGYPT - MAY 27: A woman watches from her balcony as demonstrators gather in Tahrir Square on May 27, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said that there would be no use of violence against protests dubbed 'the Second Revolution of Anger' taking place in Cairo and other cities in Egypt. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

CAIRO, EGYPT - MAY 27: A flag seller sits in Tahrir Square on May 27, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said that there would be no use of violence against protests dubbed 'the Second Revolution of Anger' taking place in Cairo and other cities in Egypt. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

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Yesterday, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court re-scrambled that country’s already-messy politics by dissolving the country’s recently elected parliament and overturning a law that would have barred the old regime’s last prime minister from participating in the upcoming presidential runoff election. Although the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) didn’t actually issue those rulings

Politico By KENNETH P. VOGEL and TARINI PARTI | 6/15/12 4:35 AM EDT The Koch brothers’ political operation has increasingly come to resemble its own political party — and later this month in San Diego, it will hold what amounts to its most ambitious convention to date. Many of the dozens of rich conservative invitees are expected to write huge checks to a pool of cash distributed among Koch-

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9 likes Egypt's military rulers have formally dissolved the lower house of parliament and barred MPs from entering, according to a state newspaper. Friday's move comes one day after the supreme court issued two controversial rulings, one of which declared the parliament unconstitutional. Security forces block Egypt's parliamentlike

131 likes Thank you, teachers. Notes Zoe Weil: "The real hope for our world, for creating peace, for solving our entrenched problems... lies with you – how well you provide your students with the knowledge, tools, and motivation they need to be able to create such systems." An Open Thank You Letter to Teacherslike

26 likes The head of the UN observers in Syria has said a spike in violence is derailing the mission, which is the only functioning part of an international peace plan to calm the country's spiraling crisis. Major General Robert Mood on Friday blamed both sides of the conflict for the escalating bloodshed. Syria violence 'derailing' UN peace missionlike

Uploaded by BarackObamadotcom on Jun 14, 2012 Are you in? https://my.barackobama.com/twochoicesvid President Obama was in Ohio today to deliver the first in a series of speeches that lay out the clear choice in this election between a vision that moves us forward and creates an economy built to last, and one that would send us backward to the failed policies of the past decade.

On this Thursday night edition of the broadcast, James goes over the latest headlines and takes your calls. In the second half of the broadcast we’re joined by James Evan Pilato of FoodWorldOrder.com to talk about the news in the land of food, health and the environment. Works Cited: These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America Chart: How the Bilderbergers are Connected to Everything B

Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign http://ur1.ca/9hztb Related: The Houla Hoaxsters http://ur1.ca/9hztc US Among Countries To Fund Syrian Opposition http://ur1.ca/9hzte Flashback: Ve

Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign http://ur1.ca/9hztb Related: The Houla Hoaxsters http://ur1.ca/9hztc US Among Countries To Fund Syrian Opposition http://ur1.ca/9hzte Flashback: V

When we were political children we talked like children, we thought like children, we reasoned like children. When we became men, we put childish ways behind us. Join us tonight on Corbett Report Radio for James’ take on the Rand Paul endorsement of Romney and what this means for the liberty movement. Works Cited: Rand Paul endorses Mitt Romney Thank You, Ron Paul “No Treason” by Lysander Spooner

by James Corbett FukushimaUpdate.com June 14, 2012 Two new reports have emerged this week from the Japanese government demonstrating how government agencies hid data from the public in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, and how they misrepresented the effects of that crisis. On Monday, NHK obtained a draft report from the Japanese science ministry about the government’s response to the cris

Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Google To Warn Possible Victims Of State-Sponsored Spying http://ur1.ca/9gh8z Related: Obama Lights The ‘Flame’ – From ‘Virtual War’ To Military Conflict http://ur1.ca/9gh90 Story #2: China,

Although there have been much brouhahas and rumpus from Mombasa Republic Council (MRC), agitating for cessation from Kenya, the truth is what MRC is trying to do is treason. For nobody can declare a republic within a republic and fall short of committing treason. Therefore, legally speaking, MRC needs to be told to its face that what it is trying to do is treason and it is heavily punishable unde

Op-ed submission by Project 21 Our nation’s current political battle about same-sex marriage reminds me of the film “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” in which rivals fight it out in a cage to chants of “two men enter, one man leaves!” I also recall Tina Turner’s song from the film. She belts out: “We don’t need another hero. We don’t need to know the way home.” Conservatives might take Turner’s lyrics

Bob Kelley sends along a rather different view than my own more jaded take on the “landscaping” activities at Parchin. Bob believes the Iranians are not be sanitizing the area near the test chamber at Parchin, but rather laying the foundation for a new structure. “Time will tell,” Bob says — and I suppose he’s right about that. I am eager to see the next set of images from Parchin. Shooting at a

This is the Hard Mobile Launcher (HML) designed for the never-deployed Small ICBM, better known (somewhat offensively) as the “Midgetman.” Apparently, the US Air Force is considering bringing back mobile basing in its Analysis of Alternatives for a Minuteman Follow-on. This is nuts. They should just quit while they are behind. One of the curious features of the April 2010 Nuclear Posture Review

Watching Arab governments collapse is always a nice opportunity to check out military hardware — particularly missiles. Libya’s collapse resulted in some pretty nice shots of its remaining Scud-B missiles. Syria has yet to collapse and unleash images of wrecked Scuds and whatnot, but here is a tantalizing first hint. On Twitter, @lalithadithya said “FSA claims to have captured a Syrian army miss

Day 1: May 3, 2012 We leave Tel Aviv, a sun-drenched city filled with beaches, high rises and casually-dressed Israelis, on the only road across the West Bank to Jerusalem. It's a slick highway surrounded on all sides by a "fence" -- in some places cement and in other places barbed wire, dotted with armed checkpoints. On the side of the road, Palestinian men walk through a narrow barbed wire path

Major food corporations face a quandary. They are under Wall Street's constant profit-growth pressure, but they can't substantially raise product prices because the food market is so cost sensitive. Therefore, to entice us to spend even more on eating, Big Food has lately been trying to extend the biological limits of consumption by challenging one of the most basic structures of American culture:

It took a while, but Republicans finally put two and two together. Chicago is known for political corruption. President Obama's home base is Chicago. So accusing him of "Chicago-style politics" is a surefire winner, right? Not really, as it turns out. Republicans have thrown the insult around a lot over the past few months, but it hasn't added up to much of an advantage. That's in part because O

In late March, at the third annual conference of J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobbying group, Daniel Levy sat on a panel debating the viability of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Levy, a former Israeli government official now with a think tank in Washington, spoke for a few minutes on the possibilities of peace moving forward. He then made a reference he knew everyone

What is it that makes us want the stars? Surely there are philosophical reasons that push us into the universe, and in his book Quest: The Essence of Humanity (2004), Charles Pasternak delves into ‘questing’ as a drive embedded in the species. But alongside a need to explore I can see two other drivers. One is the urge to know whether life exists elsewhere, and ultimately, whether there are other

In astronomy, the word ‘metals’ refers to anything heavier than hydrogen and helium. Stars fuse hydrogen into helium and from there work their way into the higher elements until hitting iron, at which point the end quickly comes, with ‘star stuff,’ as Carl Sagan liked to put it, being flung out into the universe. Through stellar generations we can trace a higher concentration of the heavier elemen

Yo, Blair! Two little words that seemed to express everything that had gone wrong between our last but one prime minister and the US president he had decided to affix himself to. Far from being equals, or even keeping up the pretence where others might hear, here was how the president really addressed his UK counterpart: much like he might his dog. For those who decided this was merely one of B

So now we know. The government's workfare programme, known as mandatory work activity, has nothing whatsoever to do with getting the long-term unemployed back into work. Counter-intuitive as this sounds, this is exactly what the research commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions has found (PDF). The study, which compared the outcomes between 3,000 of those put onto MWA and 125,000 on

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: In a historic power shift, many emerging economy leaders are heading this week to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, while domestic concerns keep most developed country leaders at home. Nearly all European heads of state are staying away, ostensibly for a meeting on the economy of Greece. But if they don't get the future challenges right in R

Australia today created the world’s biggest network of marine protected areas, setting an important precedent for ocean protection as countries prepare to meet for the Rio+20 meeting on sustainable development. WWF welcomed the new system of marine parks that would now cover more than one third of the Commonwealth waters of Australia – a milestone that WWF has been working towards for more than

By Sajjad Shaukat Although external elements have been creating unrest in various provinces of Pakistan through bomb blasts, suicide attacks, abductions, target killings, ethnic and sectarian violence, yet situation in the province of Balochistan has deteriorated where these sinister activities have intensified. In this regard, the civil government and the Supreme Court of Pakistan have continuo

A few days ago, some rather naked pictures of Snooki began appearing on the Internet. I point out rather racy because they are fully nude pictures with censor bars covering the unmentionables. Meanwhile, no one was quite sure, if they were photo-shopped or legitimate, and even how they appeared on the web for those matters. Snooki’s ex-BF Emilio Masella is adamant…he’s not the mastermind behind th

by liberal japonicus This Guardian article, about Barbara Arrowsmith, on neuroplasticity, seems like nice weekend fodder. This passage struck me. "I was experiencing a mental exhaustion like I had never known," she says, "so I figured something was happening. And by the time I'd done that for three or four months, it really felt like something had shifted, something had fundame

--Sebastian There is a pretty interesting discussion of drone strikes going on at crookedtimber, you all should check it out. I'm torn on drone strikes, so what follows aren't really conclusions about them, but rather examinations of the tension in different ways of looking at them. The Pentagon view appears to be that they are much more targeted, much more accurate, have less risk for our

by liberal japonicus A colleague who I respect very much has passed away, and I'd like to introduce him and the cause that he devoted his life to. Harada sensei was one of the people who discovered the causal link between an unexplained disease that was found in Minamata and methylmercury discharges by the Chisso corporation, which was later terms Minamata disease, though if there were any jus

Michael Hill, we hardly knew ye. Sure, we remember how, as early as 2000, you already were denigrating your black former students at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to your friends, mocking their “humorous” names and offering up sensitive jokes like this one: “A quote from a recent affirmative action hire: ‘Yesta-day I could not spell [...]

I’m writing with significant news. Please allow me to introduce you to a fabulous new member of the PAN community, our incoming Executive Director, Judy Hatcher. The entire team here at PAN is so thrilled to have Judy at the helm, and we hope you'll join us in welcoming her. read more

Governments are gathering in Brazil, twenty years after the historic 1992 Earth Summit where nations around the world pledged to devote themselves to ending hunger and conserving the planet’s resources for future generations. This week, governments gather once again, and food and agriculture are high on the agenda of “Rio+20.” Global leaders will be discussing which way forward to feed the world a

On a rainy day in Iowa last month, I found myself crowded into a small building perched on the Mustard Seed Community Farm near Ames. I was joined by PAN's new staff scientist, Emily Marquez, and we were honored to teach a group of local farmers how to use the PAN Drift Catcher. The training took place at a field day hosted by Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI), and despite the downpour, we had a

Pham Binh of the The North Star asked me, along with several others, to submit a post about the significance of the success of SYRIZA in Greece. Please go here to read all of the offerings, which should be posted by early next week. Here's what I sent to him: What Can American Leftists Learn from the Success of SYRIZA?Even now, the significance of SYRIZA’s success in the recent Greek parliamenta

I've suspected that when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the US earlier in the spring, President Barack Obama laid down some lines on Israel's behavior. This small bit of news isn't enough to support that idea, but I'd like to note it for future reference.Last week, the Global Counterterrorism Forum held its first meeting. Without Israel. Turkey is the co-convenor of the Forum, with the

I was called by a journalist yesterday who told me that in Dewsbury six years ago I shared a platform with Baroness Warsi’s now husband at a meeting against the persecution of Muslims. Sadly I couldn’t really help him as at the time I was doing hundreds such events and have only the dimmest of recollections of that one. It is not merely amusing that Cameron refers Warsi for investigation for al

When Arati Chaudhary’s husband left for India to find work as a migrant labourer, the job of managing farm and family fell on her slender shoulders. Nepal is among the world's most climate vulnerable countries “My family (of four children) will starve if I don’t work harder on the farms this year. I just hope that it rains well in the monsoon season (June-September),” Arati tells IPS in her v

Human rights should be explicitly recognised as an indispensable ingredient of sustainable development at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil, says Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In an interview with U.N. correspondent Rousbeh Legatis, Pillay elaborated on the nexus between human rights and sustainable development, and what world leaders meeting Jun. 20-22 have to do

Unlocking women’s energies and allowing them to become drivers of change could fuel the motor of sustainable development. The question is whether world leaders meeting at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil will squander or seize this tremendous opportunity to harness women’s full potential. Michelle Bachelet. Credit: Courtesy of UN Women In an interview with U.N. correspondent Isabelle de Grave ahead of

Year after year, women in rural areas of the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco have to get ready for floods that threaten their homes, crops and livestock. “We have adapted. Now we build our houses on stilts,” Celia Hernández, who works for an indigenous tourism project in Centla, 857 km south of Mexico City, told IPS. River margins in Tabasco are badly affected by floods in the second half of

When the heavily hyped three-day U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) comes to a close in Rio de Janeiro Jun. 22, what would be the yardstick to measure its successes and failures? Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has his own criteria for success, including a renewed political commitment for sustainable development; an inclusive green economy; a set of sustainable development goals (SDG

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